In short, yes, a website is the way to go.
Lenora has found Indigenous online communities of practice, such as Cradleboard, to be very helpful. In today’s world internet is the most useful to connect to other people, over long distances.
I noticed the Cradleboard Teaching Project Teacher’s Circle (http://www.cradleboard.org), is designed in a way which would work well on low bandwidth or dial-up internet connections. The site used frames, basic formatting, and is not media rich. Taking a simple approach to the anti-bullying website design would make the site more accessible even in remote regions.
The problem still remains, that Lenora does not have the skills to create her own website for the anti-bullying resources. There are a number of ways she could address this:
- Lenora could ask others for help and support with her initiative. Since she is already participating in Indigenous online communities, that would be one place where she could ask, outside her regular connections.
- She could approach SD 83 (North Okanagan) with her idea and ask if they can host or sponsor such an educational initiative.
- Since the web site she needs is very basic, she could sign up to learn how to create basic web pages.
- She could pay someone to do this for her.
For her purposes, print or other methods of broadcast communication will not be able to foster the type of connections that she could in an online community.